Shirley at Yes Biscuit has been doing a superlative job of bringing to light the atrocities at Memphis Animal Shelter (albiet "shelter" is a misnomer... more like Memphis Torture Chamber or Memphis Kill Room). Two years ago, this instiution STARVED a healthy puppy to death. This horrific deed promoted the installation of webcams so the public could keep tabs and the hiring of new manager - Matthew Pepper.
Astonishingly, as anyone who follows Biscuit can see (to their horror), being in camera seems to have had NO effect on the sitaution whatsoever. MAS admits to a 70% kill rate with little to no effort going into creating a kinder and more hopeful environment for Memphis animals. Shirley captures frame after frame of animals being dragged to the kill room, dogs being stuffed into TINY cages, cats being poked with prodded and puppies dumped into a garbage can, hauled straight to be killed.
It has astonished and perplexed me for many months now how the Memphis public stands by and watches this - how the City government continues to laude director Pepper and councillor after councillor shrugs and somehow DOESN'T see a problem.
Shirley began a "chip-in" account to provide rescue and care to animals who never see the light of day and are hidden from the public and offered no chance of adoption.
In response, she received a pathetically couched piece of crap which threatens her with "legal action" based on an obscure piece of legislation that some law student probably spent days searching through archives for. See Shirley's blog on it here.
KC Dog Blog covers it here.
Pet Connecton here.
Then Raised by Wolves and Smartdog weigh in here and here.
So rather than try to fix what is clearly a very broken system, they would rather waste money on threatening an individual who offers her time, money and effort to help some of the animals so summarily dismissed in Memphis Animal Shelter.
Pathetic doesn't cover it.
Stand up and be counted Memphis citizens. The world is watching. Your city is being portrayed in a supremely negative light - so where are you?
This is all too reminiscent of our own issues here with the OSPCA.
That organization too is politically shielded, tacitly and overtly supported despite horrendous and incontrovertible contraventions of law and morality and their upper echelon of management is also lauded . Lies and omissions, immoral and outrageous - some major fixin needs doing in these organizations.
So let them hear our voices.
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